I knew how to play the music they called bebop, and I loved it. From Wordnik.com. [Brother Ray]
I see his harmonic ideas as being fundamental to so-called bebop, but he wasn't really out of that. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Lydon: Robin Kelley's Transcendental Thelonious Monk] Reference
They were playing this new style of music called bebop, a term that I have never been really happy with. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering Hank Jones, 'The Dean Of Jazz Pianists'] Reference
I've heard Oscar Peterson described as a bebop pianist, but I don't think that does his playing style justice. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
It could be bebop or hip-hop, electronica or classical. From Wordnik.com. [Song of the Week: 'Don't Explain'] Reference
And the siblings played bebop in the family's living room. From Wordnik.com. [Big and Small Sounds from Anat Cohen] Reference
The Swing Era was over, bebop and small-band jazz were taking hold. From Wordnik.com. [Artie Shaw At 100: Celebrating A Swing Era Sensation] Reference
That's where we went to just play bebop for jam all night for free. From Wordnik.com. [Q: The Legendary Quincy Jones] Reference
By 1954, Previn, age 26, was performing with some of those bebop masters. From Wordnik.com. [Andre Previn: Musical Polymath Goes Solo] Reference
The first one was bebop and the second one was the Afro-Cuban revolution. From Wordnik.com. [The Lasting Impact of Dizzy Gillespie] Reference
You know, he's the father of bebop, and I take that as a great compliment. From Wordnik.com. [Trumpeter Terence Blanchard Performs Live in 4A] Reference
PINKWATER: The bebop artist and poet, he did "Polkabats and Octopus Slacks.". From Wordnik.com. [Books for Kids, for Every Winter Holiday] Reference
Mr. DANNY JORDAN (Saxophonist): It was either Dixieland, or bebop, or fusion. From Wordnik.com. [At 85, Sam Rivers Creates A Scene In Orlando] Reference
Toddler's momma was helping him bebop over to take a closer look at the doggies. From Wordnik.com. [haloaskew Diary Entry] Reference
It combines post-bebop fusion, lyrical ballads, even African rhythms and melodies. From Wordnik.com. [Lionel Loueke: Jazz Meets African Rhythms On 'Mwaliko'] Reference
There were the jazz musicians, who were taking bebop into ever more esoteric terrain. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
He's comfortable playing bebop or swing, hip-hop or more experimental free-form style. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas Payton: Trumpet Is Essence of New Orleans] Reference
The elegant baritone is credited with introducing the bebop big band sound to the world. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Rewind, Volume I] Reference
Dreamy sensitive individual, interested particularly in the current musical idiom of bebop. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2006] Reference
If my posture wasn't as good as it is I would have made a splendid bebop kid back in the day. From Wordnik.com. [kinaesthesia Diary Entry] Reference
So when you get lazy, you don't want to go through the Nasi canal, you bebop across that step. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 18, 2007] Reference
His journey through music led him to revolutionize jazz by infusing bebop and Afro-Cuban rhythms. From Wordnik.com. [The Lasting Impact of Dizzy Gillespie] Reference
Sometimes she'll go outside her zone of comfort and bebop around the corner to Target or Wal-Mart. From Wordnik.com. [haloaskew Diary Entry] Reference
PLAYERS Conventional Wisdom B. Clinton (+) Offhand refs to bebop and MTV in foreign policy address. From Wordnik.com. [Budget-Battle Edition] Reference
(Soundbite of music) BANNING EYRE: Lionel Loueke is fluent in African, bebop, and Brazilian rhythms. From Wordnik.com. [Lionel Loueke: Jazz Meets African Rhythms On 'Mwaliko'] Reference
It goes between there and pretty dense atonality without ever stopping in between at bebop, let's say. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Ayler's Fiery Sax, Now on Film] Reference
When we started working on this about five years ago Penn had gotten really deep into jazz, bebop jazz. From Wordnik.com. [The Filthiest Joke Ever Told] Reference
She studied classical piano, fell in love with bebop jazz and then fell in love with John Coltrane in 1962. From Wordnik.com. [Jazz Musician Alice Coltrane Dies] Reference
"They had heard all the greats from the bebop era; they knew if you could play or were just fooling around.". From Wordnik.com. [A Ballad of New York, Lived and Played for All] Reference
When you're listening to people play the post-bebop stuff, you know, you can hear this great instrumentation. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Plant: Born In England; Made In America] Reference
Since the 40's - with the arising of the jazz style bebop - the reduced quinte is also regarded as blue note. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Crow] Reference
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